Anti-Corn Law League
campaigns, elections, and the law
concepts
economic governance
global economic issues
political economy
PROTECTIONISM FORMS PART of an American political legacy inherited from the colonial era as part of Great Britain's mercantilist traditions. Independence did not change the need to protect America's infant industries. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Protectionism]
protectionism
trade (economics)